Lata is the second free pattern from Rowan studio issue thirty two. This houndstooth check long sleeved sweater with contrast bands is knitted in Rowan Yarns Handknit Cotton (Cotton 100%). This design by Martin Storey is suitable for the average knitter.

For the first free pattern of Rowan studio issue thirty two – Dionne by Lisa Richardson – you may look here.

Sandy is knitted using Rowan Yarns Cotton Glacé. It has three quarter sleeves and moss stitch cuffs and hems. The center of front and back are knitted with a contrast colourblock detail. This knitting pattern is suitable for the average knitter.

So go downtown
Things will be great when you’re downtown
No finer place for sure, downtown
Everything’s waiting for you

Dusty a design by Marie Wallin is knitted in Rowan Yarns Handknit Cotton. Dusty is a round neck cardigan with contrasting colourblock detail to the back, cuffs and band the pattern is suitable for the average knitter.

Time keeps moving on,
Friends they turn away, Lordy Lord.
Well, I keep moving on
But I never found out why

Dionne the first free pattern from Rowan studio issue thirty two is available for download. Dionne is a short sleeved sweater with geometric block detail and peter pan collar and knitted in Rowan Yarns Cotton Glacé.

A tip for those who don’t want to knit in a monochromatic palette. Both yarns featured in Rowan Yarns studio issue thirty two are available in a wide range of shades. And if you want to knit them in the shades of the sixties, here are the colours of year 1965 which are inspired from outer space.

turquoise

Cotton Glacé Aqua 858

Handknit Cotton Blue John 365

bright red

Cotton Glacé Poppy 741

Handknit Cotton Rosso 21

Silver

Cotton Glacé Dawn Grey 831

Handknit Cotton Ice Water 239

Platinum

Cotton Glacé Twilight 829

Handknit Cotton Slate 347

gold

Cotton Glacé Mineral 856

Handknit Cotton Ochre 349

Star-Dust

Cotton Glacé Cadmium 846

Handknit Cotton Sunshine 354

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Do you remember the 60s?

Well I don’t! But here are the FASHION ICONS who have had a great influence to fashion in the swinging sixties and some of their designs. For Part 8 look here!

PAULENE STONE

Although she’s not as well known as say, Twiggy, top model Paulene Stone was a Vogue cover girl and the face of ‘Swinging London’.

Paulene Stone is a former Vogue cover girl who embodied Swinging London in the 1960s.

Pauline Stone

Vogue August 1964 COVER: HELMUT NEWTON MODEL: Pauline Stone

Pauline Stone, 1964

Pauline Stone

BRIGITTE BARDOT

Brigitte Bardot was the original French sex kitten and a blonde bombshell, making bikinis the swimwear style to be seen in, and a messy, piled-high up-do the hair-do of choice.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934) is a French former actress, singer and fashion model, now an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and ’60s. Starting in 1969, Bardot’s features became the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot, commanding the street in Rome.

the one & only….Brigitte Bardot

RAQUEL WELCH

Pin-up Raquel Welch may be best-known for her fur bikini in One Million Years B.C, but off screen she worked a more glamorous look, with pantsuits, Pucci prints, and sex kitten hair.

Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), better known as Raquel Welch, is an American actress and sex symbol. Welch came to attention as a new star on the 20th Century Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in an animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. (1966), for which she may be best known. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969) and Myra Breckinridge (1970).

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

TIPPI HEDREN

Hitchcock heroine Tippi Hedren was a cool, patrician blonde with a ladylike wardrobe, effortlessly poised, even when running screaming from a flock of wild birds.

Nathalie Kay “Tippi” Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress, former fashion model and an animal rights activist. She is known for her roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie (in which she played the title role).

Tippi Hedren is an actress who Alfred Hitchcock made famous by casting her in The Birds and Marnie. This is 60’s style.

Tippi Hedren by Philippe Halsman, 1962

Tippi Hedren

Tippi Hedren for Marnie (1964)

SHARON TATE

Hailed as one of Hollywood’s most promising newcomers before her tragic death at the hands of Charles Manson’s followers, Sharon Tate starred in cult movie Valley of the Dolls and married director Roman Polanski.

Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several motion pictures. She also appeared regularly in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood’s most promising newcomers. She made her film debut in the occult-themed Eye of the Devil (1966), which was produced by Martin Ransohoff. Tate also starred as Jennifer North in the cult classic, Valley of the Dolls (1967), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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NANCY KWAN

Promoted as the “Chinese Bardot”, Nancy Kwan became a sixties style icon with a haircut. Vidal Sassoon chopped her locks into an asymmetric bob, called it the “Nancy Kwan” cut and it became the most sought-after style in sixties London.

Nancy “Ka Shen” Kwan, born May 19, 1939, is a Hong Kong-born Eurasian-American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles. Widely praised for her beauty, Kwan was considered a sex symbol in the 1960s.

Nancy Kwan – Hair Style Vidal Sassoon

Nancy Kwan, 1961

Nancy Kwan

Cary Grant & Nancy Kwan: Flower Drum Song

NANCY SINATRA

With the release of These Boots were Made for Walking, Nancy Sinatra stepped out of the shadow of father Frank. With a mane of tousled blonde hair, she worked short mini-dresses, and naturally, kick-ass boots with aplomb.

Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”.

Nancy Sinatra

Boots fashion girls of years 60s 70s

Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy late 1960s

Nancy Sinatra

NATALIE WOOD

Classic beauty Natalie Wood went ladylike in her earlier career, then made the effortless transition to sixties chic in the 1960s, wearing eye-popping prints and bold lashes.

Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko; Russian: Наталья Николаевна Захаренко, July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American film and television actress best known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, and West Side Story. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood in Yves Saint Laurent

Natalie Wood frolics on the beach in a mod, bug-eyed pair, 1968.

Natalie Wood

PATTIE BOYD

With her long hair, endless legs and mod style, model Pattie Boyd was the quintessential sixties beauty, and a favourite of Mary Quant. And she had a rock-star boyfriend (George Harrison) – the ultimate accessory for a sixties icon.

Patricia Anne “Pattie” Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is a model, photographer and author from the United Kingdom, best known as the first wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

Pattie Boyd in Ossie Clark

Pattie Boyd

Pattie Boyd & George Harrison

Pattie Boyd

PEGGY LIPTON

Late sixties style icon Peggy Lipton was a model and actress, who came to fame as the hip crime fighter in Police Drama The Mod Squad. She worked an all-natural look with long-flowing hair, a glowing tan, and some killer crime-fighting outfits.

Peggy Lipton (born August 30, 1946) is an American actress and model. She was an overnight success as flower child Julie Barnes in the iconic counterculture TV show The Mod Squad (1968-1973). A former model and singer, her career in film, stage and television has spanned more than forty years.

Do you remember the 60s?

Well I don’t! But here are the FASHION ICONS who have had a great influence to fashion in the swinging sixties and some of their designs. For Part 6 look here!

DIANA ROSS

From all-sequinned catsuits to sparkly shifts, and that beehive, Diana Ross deserves a mention for her amazing on-stage outfits in The Supremes (before she forged her solo career).

Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944[1]) is an American singer, music artist, and actress. Ross first rose to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s.

Diana Ross, Cindy Birdsong & Mary Wilson make a public appearance late 60s.

Diana Ross

The Supremes

The Supremes

MAMA CASS

Mama Cass didn’t fit the stereotypical, gamine sixties ideal, but she made sure her eclectic fashion sense stood out as much as her impressive voice.

Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and member of The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. In 1998, Elliot, John Phillips, Denny Doherty, and Michelle Phillips were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their work as The Mamas & the Papas.

Mama Cass Elliot and Sammy Davis Jr. on The Hollywood Palace, 1969.

Mama Cass Elliot

The Mamas and Papas

The Mamas and Papas

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Another muse to the Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger’s ex-girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithfull lived a wild life (reportedly answering the door to the police dressed in a rug after taking drugs), but she always looked effortlessly cool in her wardrobe of mini-dresses, fur coats and knee-high boots.

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades.

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull 60s – back when she was mick’s chick

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

MARSHA HUNT

Singer and novelist Marsha Hunt became iconic for her huge Afro hairstyle (which graced the cover of Vogue) and love of floaty, bohemian dresses.

Marsha Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American singer, novelist, actress and model.

Marsha Hunt by Steve Lovi, UK Vogue July 1969

Marsha Hunt in Ossie Clark

Marsha Hunt by Peccinotti,1968.

Marsha Hunt by Peccinotti, 1968.

MARY QUANT

Dubbed the ‘High Priestess of Sixties Fashion’, Mary Quant invented all the iconic fashion styles of the decade – the mini-skirt, coloured and patterned tights, bright make-up, plastic macs and hotpants – making her a true fashion legend. Her shop Bazaar on the King’s Road was the place to shop.

Mary Quant OBE, FCSD (born 11 February 1934) is a fashion designer and British fashion icon.

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JACKIE ONASSIS

Before Michelle Obama and her inspired wardrobe, there was Jackie Onassis – the original fashionable First Lady. Jackie’s prim skirt suits, pillbox hats, dark glasses, chic string of pearls and preppy style made her the style inspiration for women across America.

Jackie Kennedy the First Lady who made these great little hats popular in the 60’s

TWIGGY

We couldn’t not mention Twiggy. The teenage supermodel became a worldwide phenomenon for her androgynous look, with a short haircut, gamine limbs and bold eyelashes she painted on herself.

Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress and singer. In the mid-1960s she became a prominent British teenage model of swinging sixties London with others such as Penelope Tree.

Twiggy

short short hair and drew on the bottom lashes!

Twiggy

Twiggy

JANIS JOPLIN

From fur hats and gilets to string vests, and piles of bangles, Janis Joplin‘s bohemian style was truly unique.

I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything … It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working and you’ve got the audience with you, it’s a oneness you feel.

Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Now here is a real dirty hippie, just kidding. This is one of the most soulful and respect female singers of the 60s. This is the beautiful Janis Joplin and her famous sense of fashion.

Janis Joplin

JULIE CHRISTIE

The beautiful and effortlessly stylish Julie Christie starred in two of the most iconic films of the decade – Darlingand Dr Zhivago. We adored her swing coats, Mary Jane shoes and romantic dresses in Dr Zhivago.

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940 or 1941) is a British actress. A pop icon of the “swinging London” era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Julie Christie by David Bailey 60s

Julie Christie

Julie Christie

Julie Christie

JANE FONDA

Jane Fonda worked the space-age look in kitsch film Barbarella, and had a classic, all-American-girl look off camera.

Jane Fonda (born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda; December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress.

Do you remember the 60s?

Well I don’t! But here are the FASHION ICONS who have had a great influence to fashion in the swinging sixties and some of their designs. For Part 4 look here!

CHER

Cher‘s dress sense might veer on the outlandish side now, but back in the 1960s she was a certified style icon, with her blunt bangs, kohl-rimmed eyes and love of prints and mod trousers.

The one and only Cher. Mod 60’s

Cher, 1968

Cher

Cher – Goddess of Pop

Cher, 1960s

CATHERINE DENEUVE

Another chic french dresser, Catherine Deneuve shot to fame in the 1960s, marrying fashion photographer David Bailey and becoming the muse to Yves Saint Laurent, who created her wardrobe for Belle de Jour.

THE RONETTES

The Ronettes were the cooler, slightly edgier version of The Supremes, and wore a back-combed beehive, tight pencil skirt and winged eyeliner like no other girl group.

“I was in my car with my girlfriend and we were driving around… When all of a sudden this guy Wink Martindale—a disc jockey—he goes, “All right! Here we go with ‘Be My Baby’ by the Ronettes.” It started playing […] All of a sudden it got into this part—”be my, be my baby”—and I said “What is—what?! Whoa whoa!” I pulled over to the side of the street of the curb and went, “…My God! …Wait a minute! …No way!” I was flipping out. I really did flip out. Balls-out totally freaked out when I heard. Freaked me out. I got my mind blown, pretty much. I know it’s funny… Actually in a way it wasn’t like having your mind blown, it was like having your mind revamped. It’s like, once you’ve heard that record, you’re a fan forever.” Brian Wilson

The Ronettes

The Ronettes

The Ronettes

The Ronettes

EDIE SEDGWICK

The original ‘it girl’ Edie Sedgwick inspired Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol, and was the toast of the New York art scene with her bouffant blonde hair, vintage chandelier earrings and by wearing nothing but a leotard and tights.

Ciao! Manhattan

Edie Sedgwick in a striped backless dress from the 1960s

Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol

Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol

Edie Sedgwick

MIA FARROW

From her cute pixie crop to her eclectic, gamine style (and a love of shift dresses, coloured tights and flats), Mia Farrow was always playful with her fashion choices. She worked the Peter Pan collar before Alexa Chung was even a twinkle in the fashion universe.

Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow; February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow in this chiffon gown by Pierre Cardin. She was photographed here at Frank Sinatra’s town house in 1968

Mia Farrow

The young Mia Farrow walked down the aisle with Old Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, in a simple white suit that was perfect 60s mod.

Do you remember the 60s?

Well I don’t! But here are the FASHION ICONS who have had a great influence to fashion in the swinging sixties and some of their designs. For Part 3 look here!

JEAN SHRIMPTON

Dubbed the world’s first supermodel, The “Shrimp” went from middle-class schoolgirl to one of the most famous face of the 1960s, famed for her relationship with bad boy photographer David Bailey.

Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942) is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world’s first supermodels. She appeared on covers such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Elle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Newsweek, and Time magazines.[citation needed] She starred alongside Paul Jones in the 1967 film Privilege.

Jean Shrimpton

Harper’s Bazaar April 1965. Jean Shrimpton by Richard Avedon

Jean Shrimpton, 1963

Jean Shrimpton in her ‘mini’ at the Melbourne Cup!

JANE BIRKIN

Jane Birkin came to fame in the 1960s after starring in fashion flick Blow Up. With her gap-teeth and quirky French-meets-British dress sense, the singer and actress charmed Serge Gainsbourg and James Bond composer John Barry.

Audrey Hepburn was stylish in every decade, but with the release of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961 and My Fair Lady in 1964, the 1960s were when she became a real star. Off-camera, she made drainpipe jeans a style staple, and rocked a bold pixie haircut.

Audrey Hepburn, 1966

Audrey the 60s fashion portrait

Audrey Hepburn in Rome 1968

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

FRANCOISE HARDY

With her effortless, boho look (make-up free, and with a fringe), and wardrobe full of simple, mod clothing, singer Francoise Hardy had hipster appeal in the 1960s.

Françoise Madeleine Hardy born 17 January 1944 is a French singer and actress. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, music and style.

Anita Pallenberg (born 6 April 1944, Rome, Italy) is an Italian-born actress, model, and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist and guitarist Brian Jones and later the partner of Keith Richards, the guitarist of the same band, from 1967 to 1979, by whom she has two surviving children.

The first clothes designed by Emilio Pucci were for the Reed College skiing team.

Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci 60’s fashions | SWINGING 60’s JOURNEY: Fashion cuties

Vintage 60’s Archival Emilio Pucci Photography

In 1965, promoted by a sense of fashion and as a gesture of rebellion, Paco Rabanne created twelve “contemporary” dresses, which he called “The unwearables”. They were composed of plastic and aluminum. The next day, Paco Rabannewas acclaimed as a couturier. G. J. Sumathi: Elements of Fashion and Apparel Design

Paco Rabanne, 1965

Paco Rabanne came out with this design during the 60’s making the dress with sequins and color stones to make the dress stand out. it was short and body fitting.

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Ernestine Carter, an authoritative and influential fashion journalist of the 1950s and ’60s, wrote: “It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior, and Mary Quant.”

Mary Quant

Coat Mary Quant, 1960s Keryr Taylor Auctions

Mary Quant Design

I like designing out-of-context, without the limitations of angles, corridors, rooms or walls. It’s all the same to me, whether I am doing sleeves for dresses or table legs. Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin, 1966

Pierre Cardin, 1967

Perhaps his most famous contribution to fashion after the miniskirt itself was the “Courrèges boot,” originally designed in 1963.

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“I am tired of good taste,” Zandra Rhodes once said. “I want to do everything wrong and get a result that is of value and valid as well.”The Art of Zandra Rhodes, by Zandra Rhodes and Anne Knight. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Dress Jean Muir (1933-95) 1966 Suede Museum no. T.250-1978given by Mrs Ernestine CarterVictoria & Albert Museum, LondonUnlike her art school peers, Jean Muir learned her trade in the fashion industry. Celebrated as a gifted dressmaker, she worked for Liberty, Jaeger and Jane and Jane during the 1950s and ’60s. Her clothes were always a subtle demonstration of the sculptural qualities of fabric, with suede a particular favourite.http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/1960s-fashion-london/

…the classic Biba dolly…was very pretty and young. She had an upturned nose, rosy cheeks and a skinny body with long asparagus legs and tiny feet. She was square-shouldered and quite flat-chested. Her head was perched on a long, swanlike neck. Her face was a perfect oval, her lids were heavy with long, spiky lashes. She looked sweet but was as hard as nails. She did what she felt like at that moment and had no mum to influence her judgement. Barbara Hulanicki